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    House of Obedience

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    The Bait-al-taa or House of Obedience is a provision in Islam law which gives husbands the right to demand obedience from their wives. If a woman leaves her husband’s home without his permission he has the right to force her to come back. The husband can claim “nushaz” or disobedience and order her to come back with a qadi (judgement.) Once the woman returns she stays either at her husband’s home or in another living area (House of Obedience) which provides the woman with essential necessities. Divorce

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    Farnsworth House

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    MOVEMENT DUE DATE: WEEK 9 FARNSWORTH HOUSE Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Location: River Road‚ Plano‚ Illinois‚ USA Client: Dr. Edith Farnsworth Project Year: 1945-1951  I. CHOICE EXPLANATION After a while of researching on the internet‚ I decided to choose Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House to make my model due to many reasons. Firstly‚ I was impressed by the way how the house float on the surrounding‚ which make it become the iconic

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    The deserted house

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    (E) The deserted house Wandering unaccompanied along the lane with sadness and emotion. There was just silence and  huge giant trees.  Not realising how long it had been‚ I found myself stood in front of a big old house.  I unconvincingly stared at it and thought to myself‚ what brought me here. It was quite a big house which was situated on it’s own in the middle of nowhere.  Around the house‚ there was a towering strong brick wall which was positioned there like a prime guard  to protect the

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    The House on the Hill

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    THE HOUSE ON THE HILL The mystery of this house dated back to 1945 during the era of the World War 2. A businessman and his petite woman from France occupied this property. The husband was a tall‚ thin and dashing guy. The wife was slender‚ demure and beautiful. Her green eyes glowed in the sun. People say she looked as beautiful as Snow White. No one in all of London looked more beautiful. at the time they had no children so‚ they were quite lonely in the big house. The couple often threw parties

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    A Doll House

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    A Doll House A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Analysis Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House makes the argument that above all‚ a successful marriage can only be based in trust‚ mutual honesty‚ and equality. Honesty and trust go hand in hand‚ and only when both parties are honest enough to trust each other can a marriage work. The play begins with Torvold criticizing the idea of being in debt when in actuality his wife (Nora) owes a great deal of money that she borrowed to finance a trip to Italy that saved

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    Hull House

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    Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create

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    An Abandoned House

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    An Abandoned House It was a hot‚ summer’s day as I walked on the dirt road with only silence along my side. As I continued on the road I discovered it led to an old abandoned house. I couldn’t help but stop for a few minutes and look at the details of the huge‚ strange shaped house. I noticed that it had been a long time since anybody even took a look at the house. The old house was left to die‚ alone‚ with no one to care. The paint was peeling‚ the windows were broken and the shingles had been

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    Dream house

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    Dream House Everyone has their own thoughts about their dream house. These days homes are more affordable because of the economy and all the foreclosures makes it much easier to afford a really nice house. My dream house is not a fancy house that I could never afford; its a home I could see my wife and I having in the future. I have seen many homes

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    Fall of Communism

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    his inability to solve the decline in the Soviet economy. The introduction of Stalin’s successors‚ Nikita Krusshchev and Mikhail Gorbachev‚ along with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989‚ was a major factor in the fall of Communism during the reforms of 1989-1991. In this essay I will discuss these factors and how they contributed to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. The first factor I will discuss which contributed to the failure and eventual collapse of communism was Stalin’s foreign

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    Winchester House

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    Abstract The Winchester house is full of twist and turns. Mrs. Winchester built things upside down‚ doors leading to no where‚ and staircases also. Mrs.Wichester had a great life going for her‚ good at music and everybody loved her. Once she got married‚ it seemed everything went downhill. Her only child dies as a infant and couple of years later her husband. Now she is left with tons of money and owning half of the stock market‚ she goes and meet with a medium. The medium tells her that her husband

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